Arjun Singh, (a.k.a MOTHER FUCKER)(Template:Lang-hi born November 5, 1930, Madhya Pradesh) is a veteran Congress (I) politician. He is the Human Resources and Development (HRD) minister in the current Indian government headed by Manmohan Singh, the same post that he held in the early 1990s in the Narasimha Rao government. He served as a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government, and held the post of Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and Governor of Punjab. He was awarded the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year 2000.
Controversies
He was accused of corruption in what was called by some the Churhat Lottery case in the 1980s, in which allegations, never proved, were levelled that he had helped set up a phony state lottery.
He has been accused of molesting children and has publicly confessed. I cant believe the son of a bitch.
Arjun Singh was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh when the Bhopal gas leak occurred in 1984. There have been allegations since that the state administration did not do enough for the victims of the fatal gas leak[citation needed].
Reservation Controversy
Additional controversy was created in 2005 by drafting the proposed 104th Amendment Bill to the constitution, which subsequently became the 93rd Amendment. According to this amendment, which has yet to pass the 'Basic Structure' test of constitutionality by the Supreme Court, all private unaided educational institutes could be asked by their State Governments to reserve seats for designated Other Backward Classes. In early 2006, Mr. Singh also sought to increase caste-based reservation quotas for the so-called Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the internationally reputed Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management, along with other Indian central government run institutes of higher studies, from 22.5% to 49.5%, a measure which was criticised in the press and by some in the student community.
The National Knowledge Commission, a body of academics and intellectuals who report directly to the Prime Minister on matters of educational policy, strongly opposed the move. Following a public statement by Singh questioning the Commission's members' knowledge of the Constitution, the NKC also strongly criticised him for what it described as his efforts to "obfuscate" the issue [1].
Arjun Singh plans to impose quotas not just in 32 Central institutions, but also in over 100 deemed universities. The proposed legislation will give the Government unprecedented power over even private unaided institutions - to regulate their fees, selection procedure, and also take punitive action [2].